CHAPTER LXVI
SERMON ON DANCING
Dancing in the Spirit Always Means Victory
Mrs. M. B. W. Etter
David danced with all his might before the Lord. The word is full of dancing. Where dancing in the Bible is mentioned, it always signifies victory for the Lord’s Hosts. It was always done to glorify God. The Lord placed the spirit of power and love of the dance in the Church, and wherever the Scripture speaks of dancing it implies that they danced by inspiration, and were moved by the Spirit, and the Lord was always pleased, and smiled His approval; but the devil stole it away and made capital of it. In these last days, when God is pouring out His Spirit in great cloudbursts and tidal waves from the floodgates of Heaven, and the great river of life is flooding our spirit and body, and baptizing us with fire and resurrection life, and divine energy, the Lord is doing His acts, His strange acts, and dancing in the Spirit and speaking in other tongues, and many other operations and gifts. The Holy Ghost is confirming the last message of the coming King, with great signs and wonders, and miracles. If you read carefully what the Scripture says about dancing, you will be surprised, and will see that singing, music and dancing has a humble and holy place in the Lord’s Church. Read Psa. 149:3. Let them praise His name in the dance, let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp. (Psa. 150:4.) Praise Him with the timbrel and the dance, praise Him with the stringed instruments and organ. Jere. 31:15, Then shall the virgins rejoice in the dance, both young and old men together.
David Danced Before the Lord
(2 Sam. 6:14.) David danced before the Lord with all his might; his wife did not like it, she scolded him and made light of him, said he was dancing before the maidens like a lewd fellow, made out as if he was base and low, but he answered, I was not
dancing before men, but before the Lord; showing that he had
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